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Are there only about 50.000 Czechs in Germany? Is this correct? This number is far less than in the US and even Canada! Meursault2004 15:52, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
There are far more Czechs in US and Canada than in Germany, thats for sure. But whether the number 50.000 is correct or not, I cannot say. It also depends how a "Czech" is defined - I guess that the North American population also includes the descendants of Czech immigrants from 19th century, while the Czech communities in Europe clearly count only those, who were born with Czech citizenship and speak Czech as their mother tongue. In 1945 about 3 millions of German-speaking Czechoslovak citizens were expelled to Gemany for their support of Adolf Hitler. I dont think these people are counted in the mentioned 50.000. Historically there was no significant immigration from Bohemia to Germany. It will be interesting to know the numbers of "Czechs" in Austria- Bohemia was part of Austrian empire for almost 400 years. Today many Czechs have German names and many Austrians have Czech names - former president Klestil or former prime minister Klima to name a few. Xmort 17:00, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
- I would have expected that there would be many more Czechs in Germany and I don't mean the Sudeten Germans. There are many millions of Poles or German of Polish descent. BTW is Václav Klaus of German ancestry? Thank you for your reaction! Meursault2004 18:35, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
No, neither Vaclav Klaus nor any other present day politician is of (substantial) German ancestry. At least as far as I know. There is still quite a few voters, for whom such an origin will pose a problem. Again it depends on definition - at the begining of the 20th century approximately 1/3 of the population in Prague spoke German at home. Basically in every family which lives in Prague since then you can find somebody who was "German" based just on language. Xmort 23:04, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Canada
How come there are two entries for Canada, with different figures ? Must be a mistake somewhere. -- PFHLai 04:33, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
- There are still two entries for Canada. What's with that? Tedernst 13:58, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
- There are STILL 2 entries for Canada... Mrbowtie 17:56, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Way to change images on refresh
Is there a way to change the images on refreshing the page?
[edit] Image
The image used in this page (Image:Czhs2.JPG) will soon be deleted because it's a montage consisting of both public domain and fair use images (the upper left hand corner image, which is Image:Karel capek.jpg, is fair use--see the image use policy for the relevant rule). Would someone be willing to make a new one using all public domain images? Commons:Category:Czech people might be useful--any of those images would be fine. Thanks. Chick Bowen 23:30, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
- Taken care of by User:ImageRepairer. Chick Bowen 03:52, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Atrocious template and invalid data too
The visual look of the template had turned the article into bad joke.
Futhermore, the number of "Czechs" in the USA (over million) is bogus. Having Czech ancetry doesn't make one Czech, having some romantic attachment (currently so much in vogue) neither. Estimated number of people in the USA who know Czech language at some level are tens of thousands (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Rep.), number of people active in Czech organisation in the USA are thousands (list of organisations).
As for the other numbers: they mix together people living for long or short time abroad (say in the UK) with long time emigrants from modern era (say in South Africa) with people whose ancestors had emigrated centuries ago (say in Ukraine).
Most of the informatin from the tamplate should be moved into section of its own and given context. Pavel Vozenilek 13:17, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Buddhists?
I want to comment the statement Most are atheists, however a large percent are Christians (both Catholic and Protestant) and there is a small and growing number of (surprisingly) Buddists..
Are you sure that there are more Buddhists than for example Muslims and Hinduists in Czech Republic? I am a Czech and I met very few Buddhists.
- According to census (2001) this is not true at all. I corrected this information in the article back to correct values. Tulkolahten 14:34, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
